The renowned tonzauber (magic sound) classical music studio opened a further studio in the facilities of Casino Baumgarten in summer 2018 to complement its main location in the Vienna Concert Hall (Wiener Konzerthaus). For this historically important recording location, a compact but flexible mixing console system with full 96kHz capability that can also be used for mobile applications in larger outdoor productions was required.
After careful consideration, sound engineer and tonzauber founder Georg Burdicek opted for a 24-fader Lawo mc²36 live audio production mixing console and a Lawo Compact I/O unit for additional inputs and outputs.
‘The mc²36 is one of the few consoles that offers all music production and broadcast features, including a 5.1 mixing and bus structure, even at 96kHz, in an all-in-one system,’ he explains. ‘Other systems are either orientated towards live sound, technologically outdated, cannot handle 96kHz or have an external DSP core. For us, the requirement was to be able to use the console both in the new studio without a machine room and in mobile applications. These criteria were only met by Lawo.’
Even though the sound engineer uses consoles from other manufacturers for his work in the recording studio, Burdicek has been working regularly with Lawo mc² audio consoles in various OB vans in cooperation with the production company TVN (Hanover) for many years. As a result, he is very familiar with the product and operating concept.
‘In addition to the convenient live and recording features, Lawo impresses with its reliability, uncompromising sound quality and customer support,’ he reports. ‘The microphone preamps especially come quite close to my ideal.’
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